SUICIDE ROOM
by Jan Komasa
synopsis
Dominik, a high school student, is humiliated by his colleagues one too many times; he stops going to school and shuts himself in the virtual world. There he meets a girl who has attempted suicide. She brings him into the “suiciders room” - an online place for people who, like Dominik, no longer want to live, or at least give off that impression. An attempt at portraying hikikomori - a sociological phenomenon often described as Internet addiction. The addict locks himself away from the world, enters his “hermitage”. These neohermits of the 21st century can spend anything from a few months to a few years, locked in a room, needing nothing but a computer with an Internet connection.
international title: | Suicide Room |
original title: | Sala Samobojcow |
country: | Poland |
sales agent: | LevelK |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jan Komasa |
film run: | 106' |
release date: | PL 04/03/2011, CZ 28/03/2013 |
screenplay: | Jan Komasa |
cast: | Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gąsiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Bartosz Gelner, Danuta Borsuk, Piotr Nowak, Filip Bobek, Krzysztof Dracz, Aleksandra Hamkalo |
cinematography by: | Radek Ladczuk |
film editing: | Bartek Pietras |
art director: | Katarzyna Filimoniuk |
costumes designer: | Dorota Roqueplo |
music: | Michal Jacaszek |
production: | Studio Filmowe Kadr, Media Brigade, Odra Film |
backing: | Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | ITI Cinema, Film Europe, Film Europe s.r.o. |